date:Dec 20, 2018
As on December 15, 2018, 462 sugar mills were crushing sugarcane for the sugar season (SS) 2018-19, and they have produced 70.52 lakh tonne of sugar, i e 1.48 lakh tonne (2.1 per cent) higher than the sugar production on the corresponding date of previous sugar season, of 69.04 lakh tonne of sugar. This was stated by the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) recently. Last year, on the corresponding date, 476 mills were operating.
In Maharashtra, 178 sugar mills are in operation, and they have